Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE THE HISTORICAL NOVEL AS GENRE AND PROBLEM: AN ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL EXAMINATION
1: An Exploration of the Categories: History, Narrative, the Novel and Romance
2: History and Fiction: The Trials of Separation and Reunion
3: The German Sturm und Drang, Historical Drama, and Early Romantic Fiction
4: Scottish Flowering: Turbulence or Enlightenment
5: Romanticism and the Historical Novel
6: The Historians' Response to the Historical Novel
7: History and Invention in the Italian Question
PART TWO INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS AND UNSTABLE FORM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE HISTORICAL NOVEL'S DILEMMA
1: The Historical Novel at mid-Century Crisis?
2: Is there a Way out? Two Experiments in Myth and History
3: Galdós and the Novel of Spanish National Identity
4: The Struggle for Identity and Purpose in the Russian Historical Novel: From Pushkin to Tolstoy
5: The German Historical Novel
6: Modernism and Beyond
FICTITIOUS HISTORIES
SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the Author

Brian Hamnett was born in Colchester 1942. He studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge University from 1961 to 1967. He has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Reading, and the University of Strathclyde. He is currently a Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of Essex. His fields of interest include Iberian and Latin-American history and literature; nineteenth- and twentieth-century (and beyond)
literature, particularly in relation to history.